GLOBAL / NATIONAL – The Order of Chaos is an exhibition that “addresses the anxieties of economics, environmental tragedies, and societies of control that define the chaos of globalization. It explores these social issues in an aesthetic way to demystify the notion of art only as an ornamental production. This vision includes images from abstraction to figuration, from direct messages to esoteric thoughts,” explains Co-Founder/Artistic Director Papo Colo. The exhibition investigates how local artists from a variety of backgrounds are placed in relation to the rest of the world. Seen through a global lens, this exhibition explores the multiple cultures that populate our general culture and how the local and national are inextricably linked to the global.
This exhibition examines the tensions of uncontrollable forces that are dislocating our society to redefine a new civilization. The artworks reflect how the national contains global concerns, searching inside our culture to project our global position. This exhibition tells the story of those concerns and new ways in which we can order the chaos.
Conceived by Papo Colo. Curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo.
EVENTS
A Conversation with Hua Hsu and Greg Tate
Wed, March 31, 7pm – 9pm
Exit Underground
Writer and professor of English Hua Hsu and cultural critic and musician Greg Tate will talk about their views on art, commerce, race and globalization. Using the work in Global / National — The Order of Chaos as jumping off points, the speakers will engage in a free-wheeling discussion about the state of American culture at a time when the “local” is being threatened by globalization. $5 suggested donation. Cash bar.
Hua Hsu teaches in the English Department at Vassar College (on leave 2009-10 at Harvard University). His work has appeared in The Atlantic (for whom he blogs), The New York Times, Bookforum, Slate, The Village Voice,The Boston Globe Ideas section and The Wire (for whom he writes a bi-monthly column). He was also on the editorial board for the New Literary History of America.
Greg Tate, a cultural critic, journalist and author, has spent the last two decades formulating a critical language that has redefined African-American cultural theory and writing. An essayist and long time staff writer for The Village Voice, Tate has published widely, with writings on art, music, and culture appearing in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Spin, Artforum, The Nation, and DownBeat, as well as Africa-based magazines such as Glendora Review and Chimurenga. His books include Flyboy in the Buttermilk, Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience and Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture. He is currently writing a biography of James Brown.
SUPPORT
General exhibition support provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Bloomberg LP; Jerome Foundation; Lambent Foundation, a project of the Tides Center; Pollock-Krasner Foundation; public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn; Exit Art’s Board of Directors and our members.
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